A Survey on Different Video Watermarking Techniques and Comparative Analysis with Reference to H.264/AVC

Last few years have witnessed rapid growth in video coding technology. Among various standards, H.264/advanced video codec (AVC) is found to be of significant importance regarding reduced bandwidth, better image quality and network friendliness. One of the current fields of interest is to develop a system with authentication and copyright protection methodology embedded within an efficient video codec. In this paper we first perform a survey on available video watermarking techniques, feasibility study on watermarking techniques meeting application specific criteria for H.264/AVC and then we perform a comparative analysis based on robustness and computational complexity of different watermarking algorithms